Fence



(No Model.)

J. 0. CARTER.

FENCE.

Patented Apr. 13, 1886.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES O. CARTER, OF PEORIA, OHIO.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,855, dated April 13. 1886.

Application filed December 5, 1885. Serial No. 184, 45. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES O. CARTER, of Peoria, in the county of Union and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improve/merit in Fences; and I do hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My} invention is an improved portable fence made] up of sections adapted to interlock with f [0 each other and to stand in zigzag form without posts.

My object is to provide a very simple construf ction and to facilitate the work of putting up and taking down the fence.

The invention consists in a special construction( of the panel, all as hereinafter explained.

Iln the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 SlldgWS in perspective the special construe tioln of my new fence. Fig. 2shows the panel anti 2. section of the end pieces of two panels anLd the loop.

lhe panels A are composed of the rails a, Which may be of ordinary scantling, and the uprights or stiles b, which are nailed or bolted atcross the rails. At one end the bars a pro fiect beyond the end stile, but at the other end they are flush with the outer surface of the stile. The panels are all alike, and each panel is provided at the end which has the rail ends flushed with the post with a binding loop or link, 0. This loop or link is preferably of galvanized wire, and is put around the rail just inside an end stile, and is then bent around to a suitable angle at the end of 5 the panel. I use two or more of these loops on each panel. The projecting ends of the next panel,l3,are caused to enter the free ends I of the loops, the panel B being set at an an gle to the panel A. The projecting rails of 40 the panel B are pushed forward when the fence is set up until they bear against the side of the stile of the first panel, as shown at d. The panel B is then swung toward the line of the fence, so as to bring strain upon the loops, which causes them to bind upon the projecting rail ends. The third panel, C, i is attached in the same manner, and so on through the entire fence. This construction makes the panels all complete for connection with each other, and enables the operator easily to brace the fence as he sets it up, and

it is necessary to fix in place only the first and last panels, in order to put the whole fence under proper strain and to bind all parts firmly together. The fence being thus bound and in zigzag form, stands firmly.

The cost of the binding-loops is but a trifle. All the panels are alike, and when set the rails abut against each other or against the end stiles on the same level.

The rails of the panels are secured to the stiles b by means of a single pin or bolt passing through the stiles and rails, and it will be observed that this construction enables the panel to be adjusted to the inequalities of the surface to which it is applied, as shown in Fig. 2. After it is once adjusted, the panels may be held securely in their position by additional nails driven through the stiles and panels.

When the fence is used upon level ground, the rails may be held in their horizontal position securely by means of a locking-block, 1, which thus prevents any movement of the rails of that panel, and prevents the necessity of more than one nail through each rail.

I am aware that fencepanels have heretofore been tied together by linksas, for example, in the United States Letters Patent to Town, No. 316,4l8and I therefore do not broadly claim the invention of a loop c011- necting the panels. Neither do I claim a coupling together of panels by means of alink-andpin connection, as shown in the patent to Landis, No. 2l6,74=2. It will be understood, therefore, that my invention is limited to the combination, and the special result of this combination is that the panels may be put up one after the other by simply inserting the projecting ends into the loops, and then by pushing the panel toward the line of the fence the loops are put under strain sufiicient to hold the parts together without any other fastening. This may be continued until the end of the fence is reached, and the panels at the two ends being secured all are alike under tension and are thus all secured together.

I claim as my invention The fence-panels having at one end parallel stiles flush with the ends of the bars and parallel stiles near the opposite end, the bars projecting beyond the latter, as described, in

combination with the loops placed around the In testimony whereof I have signed my name bars adjacent to the stiles at the extreme ends to this specification in thefpresence of two subthereof, and over the long projecting ends of scribing witnesses. the bars of the other panel, which latter hear I 5 against the said stiles and strain the loops when the panels are placed in position to form the fence, substantially as described.

J. 0. CARTER.

Witnesses: 7

RH. WOODBUN, 1

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